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Call for Papers: International Investment Law & Competition Law

Deadline:

03/31/18

Event Date:

09/27/18 to 09/28/18

Location name:

Zaragoza, Spain

Organization:

Faculty of Law of the University of Zaragoza is

The Faculty of Law of the University of Zaragoza is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law
Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & Competition Law’, which will
take place on 27 & 28 September 2018, in Zaragoza, Spain. Details on the submission procedure
and key dates can be found at the end of this call.

The Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & Competition Law’ is jointly organized by the
University of Zaragoza (Spain) and its Faculty of Law; the Athens Public International Law
Center (Athens PIL) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law
(Greece); the Research Centre on Procurement Law and International Investment (CREDIMI)
of the University of Burgundy (France); and the French National Centre for Scientific Research
(CNRS) (France). These academic and research institutions joined forces in 2016 and established
the Investment Law Initiative, an international collaboration aimed at strengthening research and
systemic analysis of international investment law. The Colloquium is coordinated by Dr Katia Fach
Gómez (University of Zaragoza, Faculty of Law), Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law; Athens PIL), and Dr Catharine Titi (CNRS
and CREDIMI, University of Burgundy).

Colloquium theme
Although international investment law and competition law coexist regularly in international praxis,
scholarly analysis largely treats them as parallel universes, and as a result their actual and potential
overlap has yet to be sufficiently explored. The Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law
& Competition Law’ aims to address this topic and, to this end, interested academics and
practitioners, senior and junior, are invited to submit paper abstracts on the interaction of the two
disciplines, addressing the following, fairly broad, suggested topics:
• Theoretical and empirical assessments of the overlap between investment and competition
law and policy
• Interaction between competition-related provisions and investment protection standards
in FTAs
• Investors’ anti-competitive behaviour and illegal investments in investment treaty
arbitration
• State aid schemes and foreign investors’ legitimate expectations
• Merger control and foreign investment protection, pre- and post-establishment
• Host state responsibility for antitrust supervision of the regulatory activities of public
bodies
• Investment disputes regarding public and private antitrust enforcement (or nonenforcement)
• Cartel leniency programmes and foreign investors’ rights
• Intellectual property rights, competition law and foreign investment protection
• International investment law and competition policy in the banking sector
• EU member state compliance with investment awards as illegal state aid under EU law
• State-owned enterprises and competitive neutrality
• Interactions among public procurement, investment and competition law

Guidelines for Submission

Senior and junior academics and practitioners (including PhD candidates and post-doctoral
researchers) are invited to participate in the call for papers of the Colloquium on ‘International
Investment Law & Competition Law’. Interested authors are invited to submit, by 31 March 2018,
an abstract of an original paper, which is neither published nor accepted for publication when the
Colloquium takes place. Papers will be selected by the conference’s scientific committee on the basis of submitted abstracts, subject to a double-blind peer review. Only one abstract per author will be considered. Abstracts must not exceed 800 words, must be anonymous and not identify the
author(s) or their affiliation, and must be submitted to the following email addresses:agourg@law.uoa.gr; cathy_titi@hotmail.com; and katiafachgomez@gmail.com. In addition to the
abstract, each submission should contain, as a separate file, a short (one page) author’s CV,
including the author’s name and affiliation and contact details and a list of relevant publications.

Authors of selected abstracts for the Colloquium will be notified by 30 April 2018. Following this,
they must submit a draft paper (6,000-8,000 words) by 15 August 2018. The draft papers will be
distributed to the Colloquium participants in advance to facilitate an in-depth discussion – a ‘no
paper – no podium’ policy applies.

After the Colloquium, submission of final papers by authors is due by 30 November 2018. Selected
final papers will be published by Springer, subject to peer review, in the Special Issue of the
European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) on ‘International Investment Law &
Competition Law’.

Participation, registration and conference venue
Participation in the Colloquium will be open to the public, but registration will be necessary.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to bear the costs of their own travel and
accommodation.

The Colloquium will be held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Zaragoza is
the fifth largest city in Spain, with a population of over 700,000. The city is just 80 minutes by train
from both Madrid and Barcelona and is famous for its landmarks, which include the Basílica del
Pilar, La Seo Cathedral, the Aljafería Palace, and Aragon’s traditional Mudéjar architecture, as well
as for its gastronomy and the River Ebro. The University of Zaragoza was founded in 1542 and is
one of the oldest universities in Spain. It currently has over 40,000 students divided among 22
faculties.